Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Anti-Boycott Law is Really a Law against Anti-Jewish Discrimination and Bigotry

The hysteria of Israel's radical Left in light of the new anti-boycottlaw is growing by the hour.

The problem with Israeli leftists is that they are anti-democratic andknow they can never persuade the public to pursue leftist policiesusing the democratic process. There would be nothing wrong withleftists trying to convince the public using democratic means andpersuasion that settlements are awful and must be removed. If theLeft persuades enough people, they will elect a parliament that willimplement the Left's agenda.

The problem is that the vast majority of the public rejects the Left'sagenda and supports the continued development of "settlements" andother Israeli institutions in the West Bank, including ArielUniversity. Because the Left is incapable of persuading more than afew percent of Israelis, the Left pursues its agenda using coerciveanti-democratic means, by organizing boycotts against West Bank Jewsand demonizing them. This is a fundamentally anti-democratic tacticand shows the real nature of Israel's increasingly fascist FarLeftists.

In addition, those who boycott West Bank "settlements" are anti-Jewishbigots. How do we know this? Because they are not promoting theboycott of Israeli enterprises in the West Bank, but only of Jewishenterprises. If some Arab entrepreneurs in Nazareth or Haifa were toset up factories or hire people in the West Bank, none of the bleedingheart leftist boycotters would propose that THOSE be boycotted. Ortake the idea one step further. The Arab fascist Knesset Member AhmedTibi has Israeli citizenship. He also owns a residence in EastJerusalem, outside the "1967 Green Line." (Hat tip – Hagai Segel inMakor Rishon). Not a single leftist is calling for Tibi to beboycotted because of this. Why not? If the boycott is against allIsraeli presence outside the Green Line, Tibi is as deserving of beingboycotted as anyone else. In fact he sits in the Israeli parliament!

The answer of course is that the boycott is directed against Jews, notagainst Israelis. It is racist and bigoted and that is why theanti-boycott bill is justified, much like any law againstdiscrimination.

There is another ironic twist to the leftists and their boycottagainst "settlements." While intending only to harm Jews, the mainvictims of such boycotts are likely to be West Bank "Palestinians."The enterprises operating in the West Bank that the Left wantsboycotted employ thousands of "Palestinians," paying them wages atleast three times what they can earn in regular Palestinian jobsworking for Palestinians. And Ariel University has lots ofPalestinian students, I think between 10 and 15 percent of its studentbody. So if the Leftists get their way, they will be inflictingserious damages on their beloved "Palestinians."

While the Left is wetting itself over the anti-boycott law andinsisting that boycotts are legitimate and democratic, Amnon Lord,writing in Makor Rishon, has an interesting anecdote.

It seems that a few years back, the Israeli government decided toprohibit Israeli drivers from getting their cars fixed in the WestBank. The garages there are cheaper but there were too many terroristattacks against the traffic of Israelis going there for tune-ups. So,out of security concerns, it was prohibited for drivers to go there.

The Left had conniptions. Lead by Uri Avnery, the father of Israelianti-Zionism (and a one-time supporter of Nazism before World War II),the Left screamed that this boycott of West Bank garages was a racistreincarnation of Nazi German boycotts of Jewish shops. This is thesame Avnery, and these are the same leftist moonbats, now bellowingthat prohibiting boycotts against settlers is fascist andanti-democratic.